SEOmatic: AI SEO Optimizer

I paid $18.21 for my product photos to be optimized and they're ruined now. Pictures are very blurry, pixeled and discolored, and there is NO reversal. These are hundreds of photos. I have to delete the photos from 80% of my listings and reupload the photos because they are so bad. Time and money wasted.

Does the job! PLEAS KEEP IN MIND that after the app requests payment confirmation you cannot back up, which I did because I wanted to change the optimisation criteria and I ended up losing the whole Optimisation and was charged for nothing. I eventually had to pay AGAIN to optimise the photos with the right criteria.

Good Simple and cheap way of minnimising image size and editing alt tags. Note due to the large number of images on my site this was a big task to review and edit the alt tags. Don't tick alt tag update if you have already edited alt tags as this overwrites what was previously there.
Found very helpful when contacted.
Easy quick and good - thanks

Only reduces product images, not other images on the site. I suppose my images were ok as it only saved me 4 MB. And I used the highest compression they allow. it works and is good for renaming file names and alt tags. Mine were already optimized. Best used if you upload a few MB per image and want to cut down on file size space and speed of your site. Highly recommended!

Richards Guitars gives this a BIG thumbs up. I have been taking all my own imaged now for several years and I just saved a wopping 400 MB of image memory!!!! 400MB!!

I can already see visually my site is loading dramatically quicker and will keep a close eye on bounce rate, page views etc and ultimately, fingers crossed, conversion ratios improving!

Without question a total godsend for me.

WARNING: Running Minifier will break your images on Internet Explorer. There are some image formats that don't work correctly in IE. Just do a google search and you will see 100's of results about this. Here is one such article on Stack Overflow: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1204288/jpeg-shows-in-firefox-but-not-ie8

We are having to go back now and manually update all our images so our site works again in IE. Total pain in the $&@

Does not actually reduce the picture size, they stated we need to re-upload with a different size when contacting them which defeats the purpose of the app. The site speed was not noticeably different.

Probably the most annoying is the ALT-TEXT feature. We already have good alt-text for all of our images, but it is a manual process to override all of their proposals (which were not good). Overall not a good app, and we promptly uninstalled.

I used your product for my website https://dresslikemommy-com.myshopify.com and after checking on google speed test I notice no difference. I want my money back. This does not work! I was supposed to have optimized all the images from my website. Well that is not what google says!!!!

Go here an check by yourself:
https://developers.google.com/speed/pagespeed/insights/

put my website: www.dresslikemommy.com

It does not work. I want my money back!

Giving this a 3 because it did what it said, but...

At the beginning it asks you to decide between lossless (less compression) and lossy (more compression), and warns you that choosing lossy may result in more distortion. Then, after they warn you that it might cause this distortion you don't get to see what changes were made to your images, you're just supposed to trust they didn't ruin anything and publish them sight unseen.

There is no option to restore all of the images at once if you aren't happy with the results, you have to go through your site and handle them one at a time. Other apps offer a restore option.

Also, there doesn't appear to be a good way to contact the company.

UPDATE 2: I’ve had some ongoing conversations and believe they understand the customer service issues I am concerned with. I’m reinstalling the app and will update again after I get a good sense about the benefits they are providing with the app. UPDATE: Do NOT use this app! I used the updated version last week and now my images are not loading properly. I spend almost 2.5 hours with Shopify and they can't figure it out yet. They said it is most likely this app. Their customer service is "email only". Even their chat converts to an emailed reply asking me to tell them the problem...which I already did. I replied to the email asking for a phone call and didn't hear back. No images = no sales!! If I'm wrong, I'll update my review again. ORIGINAL REVIEW with 4 stars: I've only started using the app. I've only used it for 1 image to test everything out..so far so good.